Len Cariou

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Len Cariou was born Leonard Joseph Cariou in St. Boniface, Manitoba, September 30, 1939, the son of Molly Estelle (née Moore) and George Marius Cariou, a salesman. He grew up and attended schools in East Kildonan, including Holy Cross School, St Paul's College, and Miles Macdonell Collegiate for grades ten and eleven, where he directed and starred in the school plays. Cariou started acting in Stratford, Ontario, tackling classical roles like King Lear, Macbeth, Prospero, Coriolanus, Brutus, Petruchio, Iago, Oberon, and Henry V. He was offered a scholarship at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal but, married with a young child and financial responsibilities, he rejected it. In 1968, Cariou made his Broadway debut in The House of Atreus. Two years later he landed his first starring role in Applause, a musical adaptation of the film All About Eve. It earned him a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical and won him the Theatre World Award. In 1973 he garnered his second Tony nod for A Little Night Music. Six years later he won both the Tony and a Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street in the Stephen Sondheim musical. His next projects, the Alan Jay Lerner-Charles Strouse musical Dance a Little Closer (1983), Arthur Miller's sole musical, Up from Paradise (1983), and Teddy & Alice (1987) proved to be far less successful. In 2002, Cariou joined Anne Heche and Neil Patrick Harris as the replacement cast in the aw

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Sweeney Todd

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A Little Night Music

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A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast Recording

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A Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1

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The Sondheim Songbook

Applause

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Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast]

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Ziegfeld - Original London Cast Recording

The Story So Far...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

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